Does anyone else’s body naturally wake up every few hours even if your baby doesn’t? 🙃

My son just did his first 8.5 hour stretch of sleep without waking (8:30pm-5:15am) and I couldn’t even really enjoy it because my body just kept naturally waking up every couple hours to see if/when he was going to wake up lol now I’m more tired than if he would’ve just woken up once to eat!! 🙃

My husband did the feed at 5:15 and put the baby back down to sleep so WHY am I still awake 😩

But also yay baby!! 🙏🏻

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Yess I find myself waking up sometimes a few minutes before baby does and I have some time to get his bottle ready and a new diaper in case he needs a change I wake up naturally every 4/5 hours

Yep im up about every 2.5 hours and with my 5 week old I go ahead and just wake him because he usually needs a diaper change anyways and I’d rather get him up then instead of 30 minutes later so I can get another 2.5 hour stretch of sleep lol

I do the same with mine too. Knock it out while I’m up then we both go back to sleep with ease.

That's a big milestone , good for you and your baby! How old is your baby? I cannot wait for my baby to sleep through the night

6 weeks! This is my second baby, my first started sleeping through the night around this time too!

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